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Tombigbee River, the Glossary

The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi (325 km) long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama.^[1]

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Tributaries of the Tombigbee River

Aberdeen Lake (Mississippi)

Aberdeen Lake is a lake in northeast Mississippi on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

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Aberdeen, Mississippi

Aberdeen is the county seat of Monroe County, Mississippi, United States.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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The Alabama River, in the U.S. state of Alabama, is formed by the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers, which unite about north of Montgomery, near the town of Wetumpka. Tombigbee River and Alabama River are Alabama placenames of Native American origin and rivers of Alabama.

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Aliceville Lake

Aliceville Lake is a reservoir in western Alabama and eastern Mississippi, on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

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Baldwin County, Alabama

Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast.

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Bashi Creek

Bashi Creek, also historically known as Bashai Creek, is a tributary of the Tombigbee River in northern Clarke County in Alabama. Tombigbee River and Bashi Creek are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Bassett Creek (Tombigbee River tributary)

Bassett Creek, also known as Bassett's Creek, East Bassetts Creek and Thichapataw, is a tributary of the Tombigbee River that flows through central Clarke County in Alabama. Tombigbee River and Bassett Creek (Tombigbee River tributary) are rivers of Alabama and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Big Bayou Canot rail accident

On September 22, 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge near Mobile, Alabama, United States.

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Black Warrior River

The Black Warrior River is a waterway in west-central Alabama in the southeastern United States. Tombigbee River and Black Warrior River are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Buttahatchee River

The Buttahatchee River is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about long, in northwestern Alabama and northeastern Mississippi in the United States. Tombigbee River and Buttahatchee River are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, Mississippi placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama, rivers of Mississippi and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Chickasaw

The Chickasaw are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States.

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Chickasaw Campaign of 1736

The Chickasaw Campaign of 1736 (February 28 – March 25, 1736), also known as the First Chickasaw War, consisted of two pitched battles by the French and allies against Chickasaw fortified villages in present-day Northeast Mississippi.

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Choctaw

The Choctaw (Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi.

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Choctaw County, Alabama

Choctaw County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. Tombigbee River and Choctaw County, Alabama are Alabama placenames of Native American origin.

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Choctaw language

The Choctaw language (Choctaw: Chahta anumpa), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, US, is a member of the Muskogean language family.

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Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge

The Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge is a 4,218 acre (17.07 km²) National Wildlife Refuge located along the Tombigbee River near Coffeeville, Alabama. Tombigbee River and Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge are Alabama placenames of Native American origin.

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Coastal plain

A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.

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Coffeeville Lock and Dam

Coffeeville Lock and Dam are located on the Tombigbee River in Choctaw County, Alabama near the town of Coffeeville operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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Columbus Lake (Mississippi)

Columbus Lake is a lake in northeast Mississippi on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

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Columbus, Mississippi

Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.

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Demopolis, Alabama

Demopolis is the largest city in Marengo County, in west-central Alabama.

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Drawbridge

A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat.

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East Fork Tombigbee River

East Fork Tombigbee River was a historical name of a tributary stream of the Tombigbee River in northeast Mississippi. Tombigbee River and East Fork Tombigbee River are Mississippi placenames of Native American origin and rivers of Mississippi.

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Eliza Battle

The Eliza Battle was a Tombigbee River steamboat that ran a route between Columbus, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama in the United States during the 1850s.

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Five Civilized Tribes

The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by the United States government in the early federal period of the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminoles.

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Gainesville, Alabama

Gainesville is a town in Sumter County, Alabama, United States.

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Great Loop

The Great Loop is a system of waterways that encompasses the eastern portion of the United States and part of Canada.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Horse Creek (Tombigbee River tributary)

Horse Creek is a stream and tributary of the Tombigbee River in southern Marengo County and northern Clarke County in Alabama. Tombigbee River and Horse Creek (Tombigbee River tributary) are rivers of Alabama and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Indian removal

The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which many scholars have labeled a genocide.

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Indian Removal Act

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson.

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Indian Territory

Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States government for the relocation of Native Americans who held original Indian title to their land as an independent nation-state.

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Itawamba County, Mississippi

Itawamba County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Tombigbee River and Itawamba County, Mississippi are Mississippi placenames of Native American origin.

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Jackson, Alabama

Jackson is a city in Clarke County, Alabama, United States.

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James T. Staples

James T. Staples, officially registered as the Jas.

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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France.

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Kinterbish Creek

Kinterbish Creek is a stream in the U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi. Tombigbee River and Kinterbish Creek are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, Mississippi placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama and rivers of Mississippi.

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List of rivers of Alabama

This is a list of rivers of the US state of Alabama. Tombigbee River and list of rivers of Alabama are rivers of Alabama.

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List of rivers of Mississippi

The list of rivers in Mississippi includes any rivers that flow through part of the State of Mississippi. Tombigbee River and list of rivers of Mississippi are rivers of Mississippi.

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Luxapallila Creek

Luxapalila Creek (also spelled Luxapallila Creek) is a stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. Tombigbee River and Luxapallila Creek are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, Mississippi placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama, rivers of Mississippi and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Marengo County, Alabama

Marengo County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Meander

A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay is a shallow inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Tombigbee River and Mobile Bay are Alabama placenames of Native American origin.

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Mobile County, Alabama

Mobile County is a county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. Tombigbee River and Mobile County, Alabama are Alabama placenames of Native American origin.

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Mobile River

The Mobile River is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Tombigbee River and Mobile River are Alabama placenames of Native American origin and rivers of Alabama.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. Tombigbee River and Mobile, Alabama are Alabama placenames of Native American origin.

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Monroe County, Mississippi

Monroe County is a county on the northeast border of the U.S. state of Mississippi next to Alabama.

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Motor ship

A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine.

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Noxubee River

right The Noxubee River (NAHKS-uh-bee) is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about long, in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama in the United States. Tombigbee River and Noxubee River are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, Mississippi placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama, rivers of Mississippi and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Oak Slush Creek

Oak Slush Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Tombigbee River and Oak Slush Creek are Mississippi placenames of Native American origin and rivers of Mississippi.

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Okatuppa Creek

Okatuppa Creek is a stream in Choctaw County in the U.S. state of Alabama. Tombigbee River and Okatuppa Creek are Alabama placenames of Native American origin and rivers of Alabama.

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Pharr Mounds

Pharr Mounds is a Middle Woodland period archaeological site located near Tupelo in parts of Itawamba and Prentiss counties in northern Mississippi.

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Sipsey River

The Sipsey River is a swampy low-lying river in west central Alabama. Tombigbee River and Sipsey River are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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South Atlantic–Gulf water resource region

The South Atlantic–Gulf water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and subdivide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units.

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Sucarnoochee River

The Sucarnoochee River is a river in Kemper County, Mississippi and Sumter County, Alabama. Tombigbee River and Sucarnoochee River are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, Mississippi placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama, rivers of Mississippi and Tributaries of the Tombigbee River.

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Sumter County, Alabama

Sumter County is a county located in the west central portion of Alabama.

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Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. Tombigbee River and Tennessee River are rivers of Alabama and rivers of Mississippi.

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Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway

The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a artificial U.S. waterway built in the 20th century from the Tennessee River to the junction of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River system near Demopolis, Alabama. Tombigbee River and Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway are Alabama placenames of Native American origin and Mississippi placenames of Native American origin.

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Tibbee Creek

Tibbee Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Tombigbee River and Tibbee Creek are Mississippi placenames of Native American origin and rivers of Mississippi.

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Town Creek (Mississippi)

Town Creek, also known as Old Town Creek or West Fork Tombigbee River, is a tributary stream of the Tombigbee River. Tombigbee River and Town Creek (Mississippi) are rivers of Mississippi.

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Tuckabum Creek

Tuckabum Creek is a stream in the U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi. Tombigbee River and Tuckabum Creek are Alabama placenames of Native American origin, Mississippi placenames of Native American origin, rivers of Alabama and rivers of Mississippi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombigbee_River

Also known as Tombigbee, Tombigbee Valley.

, Motor ship, Noxubee River, Oak Slush Creek, Okatuppa Creek, Pharr Mounds, Sipsey River, South Atlantic–Gulf water resource region, Sucarnoochee River, Sumter County, Alabama, Tennessee River, Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway, Tibbee Creek, Town Creek (Mississippi), Tuckabum Creek, U.S. state, United States, Wahalak Creek, White Bluff (Demopolis, Alabama).

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